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Dumplings Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
3 eggs (will make enough for 2 servings)
1 cps flour (to start)
1 tsp salt
1/2 Tbsp pepper
4 cps chicken broth (or based on your meat selection) broth can be homemade or packaged
2 Tbsp butter
Directions:
Directions:
In a large bowl, beat eggs thoroughly with a fork. Beat in salt and pepper.
Still using a fork, add in flour and mix in to the eggs. Continuing adding flour a little at a time and mix into the eggs until you have a dough firm enough to roll out.

Using a pastry sheet, parchment paper, or a clean countertop, use a rolling pin to roll out the dumplings to between 1/8 and 1/4 inch thick. Cover the dumplings with clean dish towels.

Allow dumplings to dry undisturbed for about 4 hours (can even dry overnight, if desired). When dry, use a pizza cutter or a knife to slice dumplings into strips approximately 3/4 inch wide and 2 inches long. Drop dumplings into boiling broth with butter and cook until tender. Taste during cooking to determine if more salt is needed. You can addition water to the broth if it starts to cook away too much but broth should be thick at the end of cooking.

- This recipe can be increased to feed many people or to have leftovers. An estimate is to add 1 egg for every 2 people. Increase other ingredients accordingly.

- Avoid over-mixing or over-handling the dough. This may lead to tough dumplings.

- If your broth is not rich enough, add more butter

- Dried dumplings can be frozen for future use. Lay separately on a cookie sheet until frozen and then store is air-tight bag.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe has been handed down from my paternal grandmother (Bessie Whitehead) to my mother (Dorothy Whitehead) and on to Karen and me. No Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner since then has been complete without dumplings. Some purists will say that these are egg noodles and not dumplings. I just assume that is lack of experience and history on their part.

 

 

 

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